Written Quotes
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Before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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Bob Dylan was really mad with my wife. I had asked by Rolling Stone - the only assignment I ever had for them - to do a story on the Rolling Thunder Review, which was Bob Dylan, Alan Ginsberg, Joan Baez and a host of stars. My wife, some weeks before, had written in The New York Times that The Kid wasn't The Kid anymore and he wasn't all that winning anymore.
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Want to know the biggest lie ever written? 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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People who are offended by the Ten Commandments have a deeper problem than the stone that it's written on, I think.
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I say this often, THINK. There is something in life called common sense. Webster's says common sense is sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts. Perhaps this is why in 1776, Thomas Paine used these words as a title for the most famous pamphlet ever written.
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I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.
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The life these words speak of is not worth the ink they are written in.... He now knows that the only words worth writing down arise when language is impossible.
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Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.
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I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
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The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it.
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History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.
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The Weird Sisters is a chronicle of real women, because it tells the truths of sisters. Eleanor Brown has written a compelling novel about love, despair and birth order—the themes the Bard himself had claimed and burnished.
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It's just a matter of me opening up the page and whatever is written on the page, that's what I'm here to do.
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'Crush' is probably the most honest project I've ever written. It's my voice.
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Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy, is nourished with the blood of martyrs and with the blood of tyrants.
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I wouldn't say I see things visually first, but what I do think is important, for a lot of screenwriters, is to not just think about the words on the page, but also the world as a whole and the vibe of the movie, rather than a sequence of scenes written on the page.
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Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written.
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Luckily the script of X-files episode was written wonderfully and that became who I was and I was quirky, and I was kind of agitated and not entirely happy, but at the same time, witty.
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Except in a few cases like Music for Airports, which was a very clear case of noticing a niche [and] saying, "Okay, there's this situation in which people always play music, and nobody has written music for that situation so I'm going to." So, that was a very clear example of spotting a niche and working for it. I have done that occasionally.
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The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.
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When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.
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This book could not have been written without the people of Mongolia, who allowed me to live among them for a time and who taught me their history over salted tea and vodka while the winter eased into spring.
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Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed.
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The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen.
